Colophon: Icy se terminent l'ordre & progrez du triumphant & magnifique aduenement du roy & de la royne de Erance [sic], dauvant prompte que liberale volonté celebtê en leur bonne ville de Roven, et nouuellement imprimé par Iean le Prest, au dict lieu le ix. iour de ce moys de decembre, 1551

Festival and decorations planned in part by Claude Chappuys, who may also be the author of this account. See: Claude Chappuys / Louis P. Roche. 1929, p. 55-59; "bibliographie," p. 181-182

Signatures: [A]-C D E² F-G H(±H5) I-K L² M-R

Leaf A4 (blank) wanting in Library's copy. Conjugate leaves D3-4, E1-2, H3-4, K2-3, L1-2, all of them with double-page ill., are now tipped onto stubs at the center folds. Leaf H5, the verso of which was originally blank, has been replaced by a leaf with an image of the Dauphin on the verso (as in most copies). Bound at the end is an additional copy of R4 in lithographic facsim.; this leaf is often wanting

Illustrations: 29 prints: double-page (5), full-page--image 18 x 13 cm. (5), image ca. 13 x 13 cm. (19). "Sometimes ... attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon, but they are probably the work of a lesser artist influenced by Goujon's designs for the account of [Henry II's] Paris entry [Mortimer 202]"--Mortimer. Subject: marchers and riders in the procession, allegorical carriages and groups, triumphal arches, etc. Double-page cut on K2v-K3r, with caption "Figure des Brisilians," depicts pastoral life and warfare among Brazilian Indians as staged for the occasion using actual Tupinamba and Tabajara Indians resident at Rouen, supplemented with sailors in paint; see Moraes

These cuts subsequently reissued with a new text in verse under title: Les Pourtraicts et figures du somptueux ordre, plaisantz spectacles et magnifiques theatres ... faictz à l'entrée de la sacrée maiesté du tres chrestien roy de France, Henri second ... (Rouen : Jean Dugort, 1557). Cf. Grässe, Moraes

Ornaments: Oval woodcut publisher's device on t.p.; historiated, floriated and criblé initials; woodcut and type flower tailpieces. Copy described by Mortimer lacks device on t.p

The music on p. [132-133] is "Louenge & gloire en action ..." for 4 voices

Brunet

Grässe (Suppl.)

Sabin

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. brasiliana (1983 ed.)

Vinet, E. Bib. des beaux-arts

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung

Mortimer, R. French 16th century

Brun, R. Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle

Binding: later black straight-grain morocco over pasteboard. Front and back covers, spine, edges and turn-ins gold tooled. Spine title: ENTRÉ / DE / HENRI II / À ROUEN. At foot of spine: 1551. The edges gilt

Library's copy has the following bookplates: a skeleton holding the initials E and P, with a monogram made up of C, W, A and L (p. 2 of cover); Aubry Vitet (front free endpaper); Vente Edouard Telay, mai 1923 (front free endpaper); monogram made up of C, R, and L (page facing t.p.)

Pages [3-134] in Library's copy numbered in MS at upper, outer corners. T.p. has 3 inscriptions, the 1st of which reads: Sta Maria Magdälona Rothomagensis(?). There are 3 inscriptions on p. [134] (colophon). The hand of the 1st corresponds to that of the page numbering; this first inscription reads: Ce liuvre appartien a Jacques Mahieu passementier ... St. Ouën ... The second inscription reads: Stefano Scutti figlio di Giovanni Scutti

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